Ronald Valentine Trubuhovich ONZM (born 6 March 1929) is a medical doctor and a major pioneer of critical care medicine in New Zealand.
In 2019 he gained his doctorate, MD, from the University of Auckland with his thesis 'Resuscitation and the Origins of Intensive Care/Critical Care Medicine'.
His specialist qualifications include FFARCS, FANZCA and College of Intensive Care Medicine, Australia and New Zealand FCICMANZ.
He is a published author on medical history (resuscitation and intensive care medicine: with intensivist colleague Dr James A Judson he produced the 150 paged 'Intensive Care in New Zealand, A History of the New Zealand Region of ANZICS', 2001, for the 40th anniversary of their unit; also his self-published booklet, 2015, on the ill-health and death of Governor William Hobson).
[2] In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Trubuhovich was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medicine.